Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to attempt a soft landing on a comet. Rosetta launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana and ...

In the climax of a decade-long mission, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft on Wednesday is scheduled to land a small probe on the surface of a comet – something that has never been ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Rosetta spacecraft has been trailing a comet for the last two and a half years, on a slow, spinning ride to it's ultimate destruction. But science thanks you ...

Therefore, scientists are moving fast to make sure they get the data they've worked for more than ten years to obtain, way back when ESA first launched the Rosetta spacecraft in 2004. The latest ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A member of the science team for the European Space Agency's Rosetta Mission will be at Western Michigan University this month to present a talk on the successful first mission to ...

The events unfolding today, Nov. 12, have been ten years in the making. Earlier today, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft said good bye to its precious cargo - the Philae lander ...

The Rosetta mission, expected to land on a comet, was named after the Rosetta Stone, which allowed hieroglyphs to be deciphered. In 1799, in the Egyptian city of Rosetta, archaeologists discovered a ...

The stunning image of Mars featured here shows off the Red Planet’s renowned colour from the viewpoint of ESA’s Rosetta mission as it flew past on 24 February 2007, en route to Comet 67P ...

The craft landed on the surface at a walking pace. The remarkable achievement was celebrated by the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission, which said that gravity on the comet is so weak ...

Caption Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft in March 2015. Comet 67P was the first comet ever known to emit molecular oxygen, a molecule ...